Chapter 9: Discoveries

Normal POV:

In the Ravenclaw common room

Jenna Charlisse looked over her notes for transfiguration, trying to memorize all there is on that piece of parchment. Try as she might, she couldn't concentrate, even though she was a Ravenclaw. Her mind wandered and every time she brought it back, it wondered again. With an exasperated sigh, she gave up and gathered all her thick books into one neat pile. She dropped them on a desk and flopped onto her bed. She reached underneath her pillow and drew out the thing that had made her usually focused mind wander: a scroll, wrinkled with age yet its surface was white and looked new. Jenna slowly unrolled it and waited a few seconds as if expecting something unusual to happen. When nothing did, she continued to inspect its empty contents.

Harry had told her about his weird dream and she took the scroll to see if it's true. It turned out it was, to her disappointment. She had the same dreams ever since she got the scroll from him.

Jenna turned and turned the scroll over and over trying to find evidence that it had been used before. Not a single speck of ink was found. Jenna took out her own bottle of ink and her quill. She dipped the quill into the ink bottle and put the tip of the quill of the scroll. She thought for a moment, with her quill poised at one end of the scroll and started scribbling random lines on it. The scroll remained blank as if the quill had no ink on it. Thinking that it needed to have real words on it, Jenna started writing her name all over it, using a different style every time and ignoring the fact that nothing is coming up.

After a few minutes, she came to the bottom of the scroll and noticed something strange about it. The bottom and right edge was slightly jagged and a bit softer than the rest of the scroll. Inspecting it carefully, she came to the conclusion that it had been ripped neatly and what she had was only a piece of the scroll.

Jenna took out a pile of parchments that she had bought and started looking through each one. She was looking for something familiar that she had seen while buying the parchments. She finally found it: another wrinkled paper like the scroll. She attached it to the bottom of the scroll. It seemed to fit perfectly. She tried to take it off but it seemed to have glued itself to the scroll. Jenna shrugged, rolled it up and stuffed it under her pillow again. Her stomach growled. She sighed and went down to the Great Hall.

In the Great Hall

Melissa Abrielle was walking through the rows of people, looking for a place to sit down. She saw Jenna and went over and sat down beside her.

"Hi, Jen," Melissa said casually as she sat down. "What's up? I was wondering if you could help me with some charms homework in the library. Can You?" Jenna didn't seem to hear her. "Jen?" Melissa looked over at Jenna.

"Pizza's good…you should really try some. Have you even tasted the pizza here, they're the best!" Jenna said while munching away on her second piece of pizza.

Melissa stared at her for a split second before she said, "Yeah, yeah, I understand the fact that you like pizza. Please understand that I'm talking to you here and the fact that I do not like to be ignored!"

Jenna looked up from her pizza. She swallowed the piece that she was chewing. "Sorry, I wasn't listening. What did you say?" Melissa stuck her tongue out but she repeated what she said to Jenna.

"Oh, yeah sure. I finished that last week." Melissa rolled her eyes at her and muttered, "Ravenclaws." She turned to her and added in an almost-convincing cheerful tone, "See you then."

"Bye! Oh and by the way, try some pizza!" Jenna called after her. Jenna watched her leave and finished her pizza. She got up and went to her bed and grabbed the scroll with the attached piece of parchment along with her charms stuff, planning to discuss the scroll with Mel when they finished with charms and left for the library, picking up another piece of pizza on the way.

In the library

Melissa was almost finished with her charms homework but she was obviously having difficulties with her history of magic essay. Jenna and Melissa had worked for a couple of hours on the boring subject but they got nowhere at all. Finally Jenna got impatient and desperately wanted to show Melissa the scroll so she gave up with Melissa's slowness and wrote out the whole essay for her. It didn't take long for Jenna to finish re-wording and re-writing her essay on Melissa's parchment.

Melissa sighed as she looked over Jenna's work. "I have no idea how you Ravenclaws do this." She looked inside her bag. "At least I still have one more piece of parchment left. I guess I'll have to buy more." She took the last crumpled piece out, put it aside, and went back to digging through the contents of her bag. "I'll need your help on one more thing." She dug deeper. "Ah, I finally found it." She took out a crumpled up piece of parchment. "My potions homework, can you check it for me? I know I probably got all of it wrong." Jenna didn't answer. She was staring at the extra parchment that Melissa had left on the table. "Hello, earth to Jenna, are you in there?" Jenna looked up.

"Mel, can I see your leftover parchment?" Without waiting for an answer, Jenna grabbed the parchment and studied it. Then she looked up and said, "Mel, there's something you need to know." She took out the scroll and started telling Melissa everything that happened in the morning. Melissa looked at her, half expecting her to say she was joking but she did not say anything until Jenna was finished.

"So, your point is?" Melissa said once Jenna was finished. Jenna stared blankly at her and then she took Melissa's extra parchment and put it directly to the right edge of the first piece of the scroll. Jenna took her hands off the scroll and looked up. Unfortunately, Melissa didn't get what Jenna was doing and stared at her as if she was an idiot. Jenna looked confused for a second before she realized that she needed to show Melissa what she did. She pushed the scroll towards her and picked it up by the newly attached parchment. It stayed together. Melissa stared at it. "It still has one piece missing," she concluded.

"About time you noticed," Jenna grumbled. "Here keep it for a day. I'm busy tonight." Melissa took the scroll and left.